Salman Rushdie

novelist

Booker Prize-winning novelist whose magical realist prose is a carnival of neologisms, literary allusions, and polyphonic vocabulary.

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  1. 2 neologism

    n. 1 a new word or phrase or usage; 2 the introduction or use of new words or meanings

    Creating a neologism is an act of liberation.
  2. 4 metamorphosis

    n. a change in form or appearance or use

    Literature is the art of constant metamorphosis.

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